Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-09-21

4ACic uhNc occu INaQc ana SOlu III OIOCk- |
ton this year over 200 combined harvest |
era, besides numerous other farm nipple |
ments.
may add that we have $500 900 Court |
house in course of erection, have Just COM |
pleted the finest Pavilion in the State at |
cost OF 10000, and want you all to come |
down with your exhibits and exhibit in the |
new Pavilion, and take the blue ribbon |
from the Pomona Grange.
And lastly, but not least, l must add
word. that, with all have said, there is
one item l must mention, that we have the
best-looklng ladies in our county of any
county in the State, with the exception of
Sacramento only as our equal; as an evil
oence OF which, there are so many that the
President of this Association cannot make
choice OF one, hence our young bachelor.
OoLUsA COUNTY.
The toast, 'Colusa County-the banner
wheat county of the world" was eloquenty
responded to by f. C. Radcliffe He spoke
as follows:
Nj. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen
"Colusa county, the banner cereal county
OF the world" The sentiment to which l
have been called upon to respond is one
about which the most close mouthed clam
in the world, did be reside within the limits
of that county, could not fail to say some
thing, and We, it is a subject that no man can
do justice to, cen though he be possessed
of the pen of Shakespeare or the tongue
of Demosthenes. Colusa is grand, a
noble county in its proportions and its re-
sources. Lying in the center of the great
Sacramento valley, borGered on the east by
the rolling Sacramento, the greatest COM
mercial artery of the State, and on the west
by the beautiful hills and peaks of the
Coast Range, its avenues TO commerce and
prosperity stretch out in every direction.
The county embraces within its limits the
deep, black alluvial soil of the river bot
tom, the broad sweeping lands of the plains,
the undulating foothills, where the future
vineyards of the State will lie, and the
beautiful, inspiring scenery of the western
mountains " while its climate embraces
every variety, from that which they manu-
facture at Los Angeles at 81 900 an acre to
the cheap ordinary article-but, excuse me,
We have none OF the latter in our section of
the country. The man of means may come
to our county, rear palatial home on the
banks OF the Sacramento, where he may
watch the great streams of trade coursing
| their way down to the sea laden with the
staff of life ard other good things, while
his children are educated in the best schools
in the State; the man in moderate circum-
stances may buy farm, build comfort
able home for almost nothing and live in
peace and plenty ever afterward the one
lunged tourist, who has tried Florida and
the country south of Tehachapi in vain,
may come to our county, erect q home in
| our western hills where the life-giving
| ozone courses through his system, thou
sand varieties of mineral water gush from
the rocks, deer and game roam the noun
| talns and speckled trout fills the brooks.
There he may locate and build his other
lung up into thing of beauty, Joy for
ever. Our health statistics are unsurpassed
in the State, our educational facilities are
complete, our means Transportation are ex-
cellent. In theSacramento river, which rolls
by our doors we have a commercial artery
where there Is no monopoly, and when we
need railroad we do not wait for outside
capital, but get right in and build it our
selves.
As to Colusa being the banner cereal
county of the world l have but little to say.
The gain statistics of the universe show
this to be an undeniable fact, and if is a
| grand honor; but in gaining this distinc-
ton we have unfortunately taught the
people of this State and other places to be-
lleve that we raise nothing else but wheat.
| To dissbuse your minds of this impression
we have come to Sacramento on the occa-
sion of this thirty fourth annual exhibition
|
brought handful of other stuff with us
This is Colusa's first attempt at any fair
! state, district or county-and we wish to
| say here TO the representatives of other
| counties that If We achieve the distinction
OF winning only the tenth prize, vet Colusa
| extends the right hand of fellowship to her
sister counties and wishes them God-speed
| IN the noble work of development and pro-
| gress that Is now being carried on.
Colusa has the soil and the climate with
which to raise almost anything that grows
| under the sun. To raise more wheat thar
| any county in the world is q great honor:
but California is destined to be the orchard,
| the vineyard, the garden of the world, and
Colusa does not propose to be left behind in
| this matter. Her fields of golden grain are
| fast turning into orchards of golden fruit
the dawn Of brighter day for Colusa
| county is breaking over her silurian hills,
and we hope that the beaming sun of prog
ress will rise higher and higher in her
| heavens until her position as a fruit-grow-
ing county is as high as is now her place
among the cereal sections of the world
Ladies and gentlemen, come to Colusa.
see us, and be convinced
| On behalf of Colusa, we return our thanks
for this royal reception, and hope that we
may be able to reciprocate at some future
| day.
CALIFORNIA.
The toast "California-the Golden State:
the modern Canaan them favored land
OF EARTH was eloquently responded to by
| Governor R. W. Waterman. When he
arose to respond he was greeted with
rounds of applause. By way of prelim-
| mary remarks, he said that before coming
| to the banquet he had carefully prepared a
| lengthy speech suitable for the toast and
| naoasinn Inf bod Oh e.
| his pocket by Gov. Boruck, whom he pre-
sumed would, before the evening was
over, deliver it as his own. However,
no little thing like that could prevent
| him from saying a few words for
| California. his adopted State, the greatest in
the nation. He loved both ends of it. each
side of it, and the middle. There is but
| one California, and that is our own We
| have an immense territory, broad and fer
| tile valleys and plains, beautiful rivers and
streams, country of sunshine and flowers,
| and in our own nation we have 100000 600
| of people TO fill it; and we also have a
great many millions over the water that
we have no use for-that we do not want
here. [Applause.] In thirty or forty years
from now, in case of over population,
where can our children immigrate to?
They cannot follow the familiar advice,
Go West" for we have reached the
western limit, where the sun goes down in
the Pacific. The question is frequently
asked, especially regarding Southern Cali
fornia, g Are they not booming it too
much?" say to them that land that they
are buying to-day by the acre will be sell
ing ten years hence by the foot. We have
the climate. No other country in the world
can compare with US in that respect In
referring to the rapid settlement of the
southern portion of the State, and the rush
for homes in that section, he said it was
owing to the opening up of the country by
that greatest of all civilizers the railroad.
He remembered when trip from San Ber-
nardino to San Francisco took many days
by team. Now the trip can be made in a
few hours in palace car The most of his
life had been spent upon the frontier he
had been pioneer in this western country.